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Hector Lamadrid

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Hector Lamadrid

Assistant Professor


My research interests span a wide range of geological problems that focus on the role of fluids in different geological processes, how fluids interact with the surrounding rocks, and how these interactions evolve through time and space. In my research I integrate information obtained from analytical techniques (fluid inclusions, Raman, SEM, TOF SIM), high pressure and temperature experiments and computational modeling to investigate the role fluids, and their interactions with the host rocks.


  • Ph.D., 2016, Virginia Tech
  • B.A., 2005, National University of Mexico

  • Critical Resources
  • Carbon Sequestration
  • Geochemistry of Geofluids
  • Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
  • Experimental Petrology
  • Equilibrium and Disequilibrium Thermodynamics

  • Igneous/Metamorphic Petrology

  • *Sendula E, Lamadrid HM, Rimstidt JD, Steele-MacInnis M, Sublett DM Jr, Aradi LE, Szabó C, Caddick MJ, Zajacz Z and Bodnar RJ (2021) Synthetic Fluid Inclusions XXIV. In situ Monitoring of the Carbonation of Olivine Under Conditions Relevant to Carbon Capture and Storage Using Synthetic Fluid Inclusion Micro-Reactors: Determination of Reaction Rates. Frontiers in Climate. 3:722447. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2021.72244
  • Lamadrid, H.M., and Steele-MacInnis, M. (2021) Crustal melting: Deep, hot, and salty. American Mineralogist, 106, 8, 11193-1194. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2022-8108
  • *Wieser, P.E., Lamadrid, H.M., Edmonds, M., Maclennan, J., Jenner, F., (2021) Reconstructing Magma Storage Depths for the 2018 Kīlauean Eruption from Melt inclusion CO2 Contents: The Importance of Vapor Bubbles, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, e2020GC009364.
  • Colleary, C., Lamadrid, H.M., O’Reilly, S.S., Dolocan, A., Nesbitt, S., (2021). Molecular-scale preservation in mammoth bone and variation based on burial environment” Scientific Reports, 11-1, 1-9.
  • *Sublett Jr, D. M., *Sendula, E., Lamadrid, H. M., Steele‐MacInnis, M., Spiekermann, G., & Bodnar, R. J. (2021). Raman spectral behavior of N2, CO2, and CH4 in N2–CO2– CH4 gas mixtures from 22° C to 200° C and 10 to 500 bars, with application to other gas mixtures. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrs.6033
  • Lamadrid, H. M., Zajacz, Z., Klein, F., & Bodnar, R. J. (2021). Synthetic fluid inclusions XXIII. Effect of temperature and fluid composition on rates of serpentinization of olivine. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 292, 285-308.
  • *Sublett, D., *Sendula, E., Lamadrid H.M., Steele-MacInnis M., Spiekermann, G., Bodnar, R.J. (2020) Shift in the Raman symmetric stretching band of N2, CO2, and CH4 as a function of temperature, pressure, and density. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 51(3), 555-568.
  • Worthington J.R., Ratschbacher, L., Stübner, K., Khan, J., Malz, N., Schneider, S., Paul Kapp, Chapman, J.B., Stevens-Goddard A.,*Brooks, H.L., Lamadrid, H.M., SteeleMacInnis, M., Rutte, R., Jonckheere, R., Pfänder, J., Hacker, B.R. Oimahmadov, I., and Gadoev, M. (2020) The Alichur dome, South Pamir, western India‒Asia collisional zone: detailing the Neogene Shakhdara-Alichur syn-collisional gneiss-dome complex and connection to lithospheric processes. Tectonics, 39(1), e2019TC005735.
  • *Brooks, H., Dragovic, B., Lamadrid, H.M., Caddick, M.J., & Bodnar, R.J. (2019) Fluid ingress during exhumation of subducted lithologies: A fluid inclusion study from Sifnos, Greece. Lithos 332-333, 120-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.01.01 
  • Lamadrid, H.M., Steele-MacInnis, M., Bodnar, R.J. (2017): Relationship between Raman spectral features and fugacity in mixtures of gases. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 1–13. https://doi. org/10.1002/jrs.5304
  • Lamadrid, H.M., Rimstidt, J.D., Schwarzenbach, E.M., Klein, F., Ulrich, S., Dolocan, A. & Bodnar, R.J. (2017) Effects of water activity on the rates of serpentinization. Nature Communications, 8, 16107 doi: 10.1038/ncomms16107. Curriculum vitae Hector M. Lamadrid
  • Lamadrid, H.M., Moore, L., Moncada, D., Rimstidt, J.D., Burrus, R. & Bodnar, R.J. (2017): Reassessment of the Raman CO2 densimeter. Chemical Geology, 450, 210-222.
  • Esposito, R., Lamadrid, H.M., Danyushevsky, L.V., Redi D., Steele-MacInnis, M., Bodnar, R.J., Manning, C.E., De Vivo, B., Cannatelli, C., Lima, A. (2016): Detection of liquid H2O in vapor bubbles in melt inclusions: implications for magmatic fluid composition and volatile budgets of magmas? American Mineralogist, 101(7), 1691- 1695.
  • Lamadrid, H.M., Lamb, W.M., Santosh, M., Bodnar, R.J., (2014) Raman spectroscopic characterization of H2O in CO2-rich fluid inclusions in granulite facies metamorphic rocks. Gondwana Research, 26 (1), 301-310.
  • Tritlla, J., Levresse, G., Corona-Esquivel, R., Lamadrid, H, Pinto-Linares, J., y Mascuñano, E. (2009) Depósitos de filiación MVT (Mississippi Valley-type) en el Norte de México. En Guillermo Salas, Kenneth Clark y Rodolfo Cubillas (editores), Servicio Geológico Mexicano, “Geología Económica de México”: segunda edición. 2009 p. 750- 759.
  • Tritlla J., Lamadrid H., Levresse G., Bourdet J., Cardellach E. & Corona-Esquivel R., (2007) El Tule stratabound F-Sr deposit: a key to understanding the origin and mobilization of basinal brines in NE México. 9th Biennial SGA Meeting, Mineral Exploration and Research: Digging Deeper, Dublin, Ireland August.
  • Tritlla, J., Levresse, G., Corona-Esquivel, R., Banks, D. A., Lamadrid, H., Bourdet, J., & Pinto-Linares, P. J. (2007). Epigenetic, low-temperature, carbonate-hosted Pb-Zn-Cu-BaF-Sr deposits in México: A Mississippi Valley–type classification. Geological Society of America Special Papers, 422, 417-432.
  • Tritlla, J., Levresse, G., Corona-Esquivel, R., Banks, D., Lamadrid, H.M., Bourdet, J. (2006) Depósitos de Pb-Zn-Cu-Ba-F-Sr epigenéticos estratoligados en series sedimentarias en relación con salmueras de cuenca: depósitos de tipo “Mississippi Valley” (MVT) y similares en México. Volumen conmemorativo a los 100 años de la Sociedad Geológica Mexican. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, P. 103-139